Suspender-buckle.



W. JACOBS & P FORSCHLER.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1909.

952,6 2%. $9 Patented Mar. 2.2, 1910.

sans Paras SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

Application filed September 27, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WOLF JACOBS and PHILIP FoRsonLnR, citizens of theUnited States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans andState of Louisiana, iave invented new and useful Improvements inSuspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention pertains to buckles, and consists in the peculiar andadvantageous combined buckle and picture holder hereinafter describedand particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification:Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view showing the buckle and pictureholder combined in use on a portion of a pair of suspenders. Fig. 2 is afront elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear perspective viewof the buckle with the picture therein. Fig. 4: is a sectional viewillustrative of the manner in which a picture is introduced to positionin the lever of the buckle.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of thedrawings, referringto which:

A is a suspender portion.

B is the frame of the buckle, which is connected with the suspenderportion A in the conventional manner, and C is the buckle lever, locatedin front of the frame B and pivoted to the upper side thereof inposition to enable its preferably-toothed clamping flange D to coactwith the upper edge or top of the lower side of the frame in holding thesuspender portion A. The major portion of the lever G is in the form ofa plate, and when the lever is positioned to engage and hold thesuspender portion, said major portion rests in a depending position infront of the suspender portion. In the plate-like major portion of thelever is an opening E through which the picture F is displayed, and atits rear side and on its lower and side edges said major portion isprovided with inwardly-directed retainers G which are integraltherewith.

In placing the picture F in the plate-like portion of the lever G, thepicture, which is thin and flexible, is curved and moved past theclamping flange D and into engagement with the side retainers Gr, afterthe manner illustrated in Fig. 4., and when the lower edge of thepicture is seated in the base re- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

Serial No. 519,829.

tainer G, the upper edge thereof is moved into a position below theclamping flange D, whereupon the picture will be secured in position bysaid flange and in such manner that there is no liability of the picturebeing casually displaced. From this it follows that the flange D servesthe two-fold function of clamp and picture-retainer.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that the picture is displayed toadvantage while the buckle is in use, see Fig. 2, and that it serves toenhance the neat appearance of the buckle; also, that the picture issecured in the major portion of the buckle lever in such manner that thethickness of the said major portion is not appreciably increased, whichis manifestly advantageous. It will further be gathered that our novelbuckle is susceptible of being produced quite as cheaply as a buckle ofcorresponding character having no picture holding capacity, and can bemade of any material, in any shape or form.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

In a combined suspender buckle and picture holder, the combination of aframe adapted to be connected with a suspender portion and having anupper side of circular form in cross-section, and a lever formed of asingle piece of sheet-metal and having portions bent around the saidupper side of the frame to pivotally connect the lever thereto, aplate-like major portion in which is an opening and on the lower andside edges of which at its back are inwardlydirected picture retainers,and also having, intermediate said bent portions and on its upper edge,a combined clamping flange and picture retainer that extends rearwardand slightly downward from said upper edge for the two-fold purpose ofengaging the suspender portion and holding a picture in the retainers atthe back of the major portion of the lever.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WVOLF JACOBS. PI-IILIP FORSGHLER.

Witnesses:

J. P. BAQUIE, T. E. FRAZIER.

